About the Role
As an Engineering Senior Lead Analyst, you will be an integral member of the Architecture & Engineering profession, working throughout the entire project lifecycle. You will lead the delivery of complex projects using various methodologies and act as an individual contributor within specific workstreams. Your responsibilities include eliciting and managing requirements, challenging scope, understanding business processes, and identifying dependencies. You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders, advocate for improved analysis approaches, and have opportunities for people management. Continuous learning and skill improvement are expected, with resources and support provided.
Responsibilities
- Work throughout the entire project lifecycle, from discovery and shaping to build and implementation phases.
- Ensure technical solutions align with business and operational objectives.
- Lead the delivery of highly complex projects across multiple work streams.
- Elicit and manage business, technical, and operational requirements across a complex domain.
- Challenge scope and priorities to ensure optimal business value.
- Understand end-to-end business processes.
- Identify cross-domain dependencies.
- Work with delivery teams on planning, prioritisation, and estimation.
- Collaborate and share within the Analysis community.
- Support other Analysts.
- Work with a diverse range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Advocate for improved analysis approaches.
- Potentially become a people manager for Analysts and Engineers.
- Continuously improve skills and keep abreast of the latest technologies and techniques.
Requirements
- Experience of delivering and supporting technical solutions in an IT Delivery and Operations Environment.
- Proven experience delivering change initiatives in a cross-functional Product team.
- Experience in delivering complex technology projects, spanning multiple business and technology teams, that include cross-functional expertise.
- Proactive and autonomous, possessing the leadership skills necessary to independently drive analysis from concept through completion.
- Ability to manage competing priorities.
- Strong attention to detail with an analytical mind and outstanding problem-solving skills.
- A clear passion for innovation and change with demonstrable evidence of delivery of innovative change/disruptive thinking.
- Experience driving AI or automation-led change initiatives, with a solid understanding of how to manage the lifecycle, integration, and adoption of intelligent technologies in a complex enterprise environment.
- Proven track record of extensive stakeholder management by establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with senior business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience of using a range of requirement elicitation techniques and identifying the most effective techniques for different programmes / projects / product teams.
- Thrive in a technical environment and experience of using a range of models to visualise complex problems within a given sphere (domain, technical, business) to build common understanding amongst different stakeholder groups.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and is confident in presenting and running workshops to large and diverse audiences.
Skills
- AI or automation-led change initiatives
- Requirement elicitation techniques
- Modelling to visualise complex problems
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Stakeholder management
- Problem-solving skills
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Lean
- Domain Driven Design
- Event Storming
- Domain Modelling
- BDD techniques
- Feature Injection
- Story Mapping
- Value Chain Analysis
- Value Stream Mapping
Location
- UK
- London
- Bracknell
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Partnership Level 6
Education Level
- IIBA Certification
- BCS Diploma in Analysis
Salary/Compensations
- £62,900 - £92,000
- £62,900.00 - £115,000.00 Annual
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Support for learning and development
About the Company
- We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose.
- We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
- We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail.
- We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify.
- As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards.
- We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
- We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong.
- Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE.
- Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
- As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.
Equal Opportunity
- Some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates).
- Financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
- We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working.
- This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible.
